Building a private prison in Goodyear would torpedo that city’s economic development prospects and one business has already balked at moving there if it happens, business groups opposed to the prison say.

In an interview with Channel 12's Brahm Resnik that will air on the station's "Sunday Square Off" program, Pearce says he didn't secure the votes needed to become president by agreeing to a moratorium on immigration legislation.

Russell Pearce might have hurt his chances for Senate president when he held a press conference Oct. 19 expressing his desire to pursue legislation aimed at challenging the longstanding Constitutional interpretation that children who are born in the U.S. are American citizens, regardless of their parents’ legal status.